‘This is criminal’ Malik Rahim September 1st 2005 New Orleans, Sept. 1, 2005 — It’s criminal. From what you’re hearing, the people trapped in New Orleans are nothing but looters. We’re told we should be more “neighborly.” But nobody talked about being neighborly until after the people who could afford …
Voices from Louisiana—“We’re Way Past Angry” Revolutionary Correspondents in Louisiana Revolution #13 September 4th 2005 On the way towards New Orleans, I talked to a man from Thibodeaux who had flown into New Orleans by helicopter to help repair generators. “They’re not telling people what’s happening there,” he said. “There …
Hurricane Katrina: A Marxist Analysis  Louis Proyect September 23rd 2005 If September 2001 signaled an opening bid by U.S. imperialism to impose its hegemonic will on the rest of the world, then September 2005 represents closure for a project that had already been faltering under the impact of Iraqi …
Wade in the Water: Reflections on Race, Class and Katrina Alton B. Pollard, III The Black Commentator, September 22nd 2005 More than forty years have passed since James Baldwin first tried to reason with white people in the land of his birth to learn to “put yourself in the skin …
How the Free Market Killed New Orleans Michael Parenti September 4th 2005 The free market played a crucial role in the destruction of New Orleans and the death of thousands of its residents. Forewarned that a momentous (force 5) hurricane was going to hit that city and surrounding areas, what …
New Orleans Black Community Leaders Charge Racism in Government Neglect of Hurricane Survivors Press Conference, September 6th 2005 HOUSTON – A national alliance of black community leaders will announce the formation of a New Orleans People’s Committee to demand a decision-making role in the short-term care of hurricane survivors and …
People’s Hurricane Relief Fund & Oversight Coalition Calls for Volunteers September 20th 2005 Dear friends of the People’s Hurricane Relief Fund, Since Hurricane Katrina, Community Labor United — a New Orleans based coalition dedicated to creating spaces for grassroots organizations to dialogue, strategize, and build collective work– has been facilitating …
 The New World Order, the New Iraq, New Orleans and New Afrika: Death Throes of an Empire in Decay Michael Novick Turning The Tide, Fall 2005 Here’s a quick pop quiz on meteorology, cosmology and sociology: The destruction of New Orleans and the Mississippi Delta by Hurricane Katrina, and the …
Nation faces unprecedented choices: How far should U.S. go in making New Orleans whole? Rex Nutting and William L. Watts MarketWatch, September 9th 2005 Â WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Initially caught flat-footed by Hurricane Katrina, the U.S. government is settling into its familiar role of fixing up big public works after a …
 The Big Easy Dies Hard Christian Parenti The Nation, September 26th 2005 The empty streets of this city present a vista of apocalyptic desolation: wind-ripped roofs, downed trees, smashed fast-food signs, dangling power lines, columns of dark smoke and everywhere heaps of garbage. On a lawn near the Ninth Ward …